Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.
A Conservative Version
and whoever wants be first among you shall be your bondman.
American Standard Version
and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:
Amplified
An Understandable Version
And whoever would like to be first [in prominence] among you will be your slave.
Anderson New Testament
And whoever will be first among you, let him be your servant;
Bible in Basic English
And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:
Common New Testament
And whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave
Daniel Mace New Testament
and whoever would be chief among you, let him be your servant.
Darby Translation
and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;
Godbey New Testament
and whosoever may wish to be first among you, shall be your slave:
Goodspeed New Testament
and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be your slave,
John Wesley New Testament
Even as the Son of man came not to be served,
Julia Smith Translation
And whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant:
King James 2000
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Lexham Expanded Bible
and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be your slave--
Modern King James verseion
And whoever desires to be chief among you, let him be your servant;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and whosoever will be chief, let him be your servant.
Moffatt New Testament
and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;
Montgomery New Testament
"and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave;
NET Bible
and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave --
New Heart English Bible
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
Noyes New Testament
and whoever desireth to be first among you, will be your servant;
Sawyer New Testament
and whoever wishes to be first among you, let him be your servant,
The Emphasized Bible
And, whosoever shall desire, among you, to be first, shall be, your servant: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and whosoever will be first, let him be your slave.
Twentieth Century New Testament
No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to take the first place among you, must be your slave;
Webster
And whoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Weymouth New Testament
and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant;
Williams New Testament
and whoever wants to hold first position among you must be your slave,
World English Bible
Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,
Worrell New Testament
but whosoever wishes to become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever wishes to be first among you shall be your servant;
Worsley New Testament
let him be your servant:
Themes
Apostles » Humility urged upon
Greatness » The greatest of men
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Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 20:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request By The Mother Of James And John
26 but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant; 27 and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant; 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Matthew 18:4
whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.
Mark 9:33-35
And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, 'What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?'
Luke 22:26
but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
Acts 20:34-35
and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;
Romans 1:14
Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;
2 Corinthians 4:5
for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
2 Corinthians 11:5
for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;
2 Corinthians 12:15
and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.